Job Donnell

Job Donnell (17 October 1740-15 November 1776) was a colonel of the British Army's Queen's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Job Donnell was born on 17 October 1740 in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland in Great Britain to an Ulster Scots family. Donnell enlisted in the British Army and was dispatched to the Thirteen Colonies during the French and Indian War, joining Rogers' Rangers in New York. Donnell was promoted to colonel in 1776 and given command of a 60-man group of rangers during the Battle of Metuchen, where he was mortally wounded by the Continental Army. He died later that day.